The ‘Arrival’ director and Scott who directed the original ‘Blade Runner’ movie back in 1982 worked closely on the script of the sequel starring Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling, but Denis directed it alone.

Denis confessed to Deadline ‘He came on set one day and after a few minutes standing behind me it was unbearable. I made a joke, I asked him, ‘Hey Ridley – who is your favorite director?’ And he said, ‘I love Kubrick and Bergman.’

‘So Ridley, how [would] you feel if you were on set and you had Bergman just behind you? And he burst out laughing, and he walked off the set.’

‘Because I was trying to direct Harrison Ford and I was like, ‘No, it doesn’t work,” he continued.

Denis spoke about how Ridley Scott promised to leave him to helm on his own, which he admitted was a ‘gift.’

He explained that ‘He was there a lot, and not a lot, for the best. He was there a lot because I was dealing with the screenplay – I was dealing with his ideas, his universe, his characters – so I was thinking about Ridley all the time. I had a responsibility to honor the legacy of the original movie.’

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Denis also stated that ‘Now he told me right at the start he would give me all the space, all the freedom, that it would be my responsibility, and that if I needed him, he would be at the other end of the line. But otherwise, I would be alone. And that for me was the best gift I could receive because I would never have been able to work with Ridley behind me.’